I swear to God. The United States has become a nation where over half it's
citizens are idiots and it's public school system is geared up not to educated
but to produce more idiots. And from the falling test scores across the nation,
doing it well it would seem. Schools are no longer institutions of learning but
institutions of social enforcement where every deviancy is advanced and common
sense has been forgotten.

In amongst all the stories about children being suspended from school for
bringing toy guns or constructing them from Legos or paper or pointing their
.223 calibre fingers, now this.

A seven year old child in Colorado has been suspended from school for saving
the world from evil. He threw an imaginary grenade at an imaginary box to save
the world from the imaginary evil it contained.

Me? I cannot imagine that schools are now run by people this fucking moronic.
Come on. Even you brain dead leftists. Can you not see this has gone too
far?

I used to take me real gun and my real ammo to school with me and turn them
in at the office until after school when I would pick them up so I could go
hunting with my uncle.

In grade school we played Cowboys and Indians with pretend gun and hatchets.
We played WWII soldiers. It didn't harm a one of us. You people south of the
49th have become crazy.

A 7-year-old Mary Blair Elementary School student says he’s confused
about getting in trouble for trying to save the world from evil, though Thompson
School District officials contend that the boy broke one of the school’s
“absolutes.”

Parent Mandie Watkins said Mary Blair principal Valerie Lara-Black called
her Friday afternoon to inform her that her second-grade son, Alex, had been
suspended for throwing an imaginary grenade during recess on the
playground.

Alex did not have anything in his hand at the time and made no threats
toward other people, Watkins reportedly was told.

Watkins said Alex’s story matched up with the principal’s account: He
threw the pretend grenade at an imaginary box that had something evil
inside.

He was going to save the earth this way, and when he threw the grenade he
pretended that the box exploded, in apparent success.

I keep finding these stories where people are astonished to find that no
bystanders will help them when they are attacked by criminals. People today just
look the other way instead of helping. Why is that? May I suggest it’s because
schools are indoctrinating young people in moral relativism and demonizing the
use of force to punish evil. Don’t expect men to come to your rescue if you
teach them not to do it. The same people who complain that men don’t “man up”
are often the ones that want them to act more like women. Maybe we need to have
more men in teaching and administration positions in schools so that they are
not so controlling and coercive when handling the better instincts of young
men.

LOVELAND -- A 7-year-old Mary Blair Elementary School student says he's
confused about getting in trouble for trying to save the world from evil, though
Thompson School District officials contend that the boy broke one of the
school's “absolutes.”

Parent Mandie Watkins said Mary Blair principal Valerie Lara-Black called
her Friday afternoon to inform her that her second-grade son, Alex, had been
suspended for throwing an imaginary grenade during recess on the
playground.

Alex did not have anything in his hand at the time and made no threats
toward other people, Watkins reportedly was told.

Watkins said Alex's story matched up with the principal's account: He
threw the pretend grenade at an imaginary box that had something evil
inside.

He was going to save the earth this way, and when he threw the grenade he
pretended that the box exploded, in apparent success.

“He is very confused,” Watkins told the Reporter-Herald on Tuesday. “I'm
confused as well, so it makes it hard for me to enforce these rules when I don't
even understand them.”

The rules are laid out by Mary Blair Elementary School in a list of
“absolutes” that are posted on the school's website and are aimed at making Mary
Blair a safe environment.

Included in those absolutes are no physical abuse or fighting – real or
play – and the no-weapons absolute also covers real or play weapons.

District policy does not prohibit imaginary weapons, but Superintendent
Stan Scheer said individual schools are permitted to add enhancements to the
general student code of conduct.

“It fell under that set of local policy they have in the building, and it
was shared with all parents in the community at the beginning of the year,”
Scheer said.

The district does not discuss disciplinary issues, but Scheer said
there's more to the story than he was able to comment on.

“There's a whole student side that we just don't talk about,” he said.
“It's a bit one-sided with the parent's point of view.”

Watkins said her son has been in trouble one other time at the school,
for accessing other students' reading accounts on the computer, but she has not
been informed of him making threats or acting violent.

According to Mary Blair's absolutes procedure, a student is allowed two
non-severe, non-suspension occurrences, and a third occurrence leads to a formal
suspension. Every absolute that is broken following the first suspension
automatically results in a suspension.

Watkins has a meeting Wednesday with Lara-Black and Paul Bankes, director
of elementary education. She's hoping to get the suspension lifted and would
also like the rule itself to be revised.

“They need to have rules that are clear-cut, easy to understand and
realistic for this age group,” Watkins said.